15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
An interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) has been released at Digital
Dream Arena. The interview contains information about several areas. At the beginning
Hans-Joerg Frieden describes how he started put with programming and then how he made his way
to learn 3D programming. The following paragraph talks about the creation of Hyperion and the
port of Heretic II and Shogo for the Amiga, which is close to finishing now.
At the end, the interview describes the motivation to develop Warp3D and MiniGL for the Amiga as
well as a statement about AmigaOS V4.x and AmigaDE.
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15.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusExecutor V2.12
On April 15th 2001, Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.12 of the virus killer
'VirusExecutor'. Compared to former versions, the following changes have been
made:
- The'Bastard'-Link virus can now be recognized and removed.
(Thanks to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for analysing this virus.)
- The 'TeamMOS TCP'-Trojan has been renamed to 'Zakahackandpatch'.
Furthermore a small error in the decrypting code has been removed.
Name : VirusExecutor v2.12
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 262.139 bytes
Release date : 15 April 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (256K),
Readme
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15.Apr.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Graphic Adventure Engine 'INGA'
The graphic-adventure-engine 'INGA' now has got a homepage at
Inutilis which contains technical information as well
as the current development status.
'INGA' is an engine for graphic-adventures (Amiga) like Monkey Island 3, which has been
developed for graphic boards. There is already a game which is being developed using this system,
Ermentrud,
and more are planned.
The engine includes also a comfortable developer-package which is also presented at the homepage.
This will allow everyone to design their own adventures.
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15.Apr.2001
CyberGFX
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Warp3D: Voodoo3 Status
Thomas Frieden(Warp3D, Hyperion) has posted information about the status of the Voodoo3-driver
for Warp3D to the
Amiga-Mediator-Mailinglist.
The driver is now stable - even after 3 hours of continuous graphics output it didn't crash.
The command-FIFO does not work yet, so the speed is still bad.
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
On April 14th, 2001 the 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' has been
expanded.
Following new entries have been added:
- ISDN Surfer
- Amigo Ethernet
- Amigo Serial
- Shuffleboard
In addition to this there are different, smaller updates, new pictures and
correction of a link. The complete list of changes can be found
here
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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Spitfire²: YAMSync V1.0
Version 1.0 of the YAMSync-Plugin for the Palm-Desktop 'Spitfire²' by Ralph Torchia has
been released. This version is only available for registered users. Additionally, the
whole website has been reworked.
Spitfire² offers different possibilities to communicate with Palm-PDAs from 3Com, including
data-synchronisation with the Amiga.
Download:
YAMSync.lha (44K)
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15.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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Interview with Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black&White)
In MeriStation-Magazine an interview with Peter Molyneux has been released in Spanish.
Peter Molyneux is the game designer of Populous, Black&White and other successful games.
During the interview, Commodore and Amiga are named.
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15.Apr.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Obligement #26
The current issue of the french Amiga-Online-Magazine 'Obligement' is available
for download.
Issue #26 contains amongst others a report about the fair in St. Louis, interviews
with Fleecy Moss, Oliver Roberts and Georges Halvadjian(Author of Perfect Paint), tests of
Earth 2140 as well as Payback and much more.
Download:
obligement26.lha (804K)
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15.Apr.2001
Martin McKenzie via E-Mail
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Imagine 3D Support-Website with New URL
The support-website of Imagine 3D will be available from now on under the following, newly
registered domain http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk
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This is why the E-Mail adresses have changed too. Please use the following from now on:
sales@cadtechnologies.co.uk
support@cadtechnologies.co.uk
comments@cadtechnologies.co.uk
webmaster@cadtechnologies.co.uk
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15.Apr.2001
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Happy Easter Holidays!
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15.Apr.2001
#AmigaZeux in EuIRC on ANF
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dynAMIte CD-Edition Needs Pre-Orders
When we distributed 150 preview disks at the World of Amiga 2000 in Cologne,
we didn't know how the Amiga community would accept the then still very young
project of a TCP/IP-Dynablaster. During March 2001 we have made dynAMIte available
for free download after a long beta test stage. Our website recorded 8000 visitors
since December and there are 326 players recorded in the general database, which
have played several 10.000 games on different servers.
The success of dynAMIte has encouraged us to improve the game even more : A cd-version
with many special features, especially for fans of the explosive rods and a very
affordable price is in preparation.
However we have a small problem with the realisation at the moment:
dynAMIte is Freeware and it will remain freeware - however we can't offer the CD-Version
and its extras for free. Since the project includes a financial risk for us, we would be
very happy to receive binding pre-orders - the price will be approximately 30,- DM (15 Euro)
including shipping with prepayment. To be able to realize the project we need 100
pre-orders from private customers.
Those who are interested to give us their money in exchange of a fancy silver disk with even
more distinguished contents, can report this here.
You can however only report your general interest there.
Retailers can bindingly order the game exclusively at AMISOURCE and will obtain a discount,
there is no retail at GTI (as long as they don't order at our place themselves).
Retailers please use this form!
We thank all the persons that supported us
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: Apple brings Darwin to x86 CPUs, too
»Foundation of MacOS X now also as a x86 Version
With version 1.3.1 Apple now puts a new version of Darwin online,
the MacOS X core. With this for the first time an official ISO image
for x86 systems exists. The Darwin core bases on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0
technologies and offers "protected memory" and "pre-emptive multitasking".
Darwin runs on PowerPC based Macintosh machines as well as on x86 compatibles.
«
Complete article (German) under the title link.
Apparently Apple has recognized that almost everybody has an x86 at home and
offer their OS for them.
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: IBM brings PowerPC for Internet Appliances
»The days of 'one-size-fits-all' for PC micro processor are gone", claimed
Scottie Ginn, Vize President of "Pervasive Technology" at IBM
Microelectronics. Reason for this wholehearted announcement: the presentation
of a system-on-a-chip solution for Internet appliances such as Web-Pads or
Surf-Terminals. The so called PowerPC Internet Appliance Platform (IAP) builds
on a PowerPC CPU and implements memory, LCD interfaces, as well as an Touch-Screen
interface together in that chip. According to IBM the chip is considered to cost
about 60USD as for OEM quantities.
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Complete article (German) see title link.
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14.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark Report Infected Archive
A new infected archive was found. The archive was infected by "Hitch-Hiker 4.11".
Here are the details:
Archive name: FlySwatter.lzx
Archive size: 219772 Bytes
Archive description: AmiTCP/IRC/War Client
Archive info: Flyswatter is an IRC assault program for AMITCP...
Be sure to read the program history
This is the Digital Corruption release of FlySwatter
This release has barely been tested.
Infected files: WarToolz/fakemailer (23.504 Bytes)
WarToolz/mflash ( 9.444 Bytes)
WarToolz/qmail_exploit (11.364 bytes)
All common anti-virus programs can detect the HitchHiker 4.11 link virus.
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14.Apr.2001
Achim Klopsch on ANF
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iFusion is Shipping
As a pre-orderer after 18 month of waiting I received the iFusion today, at last.
The longish longed for PPC version of the MAC emulator for my AMIGA.
A for now Cybergfx 3 and 4 are supported. There is no "direct" support for Picasso96, yet.
A "new world class" MAC OS version is needed. The OS included with the MACs was said not
to work. In contrast to that the version available from the vendors was said to work.
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13.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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New VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor Version 1.30
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.30
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.057 Bytes
Release date: 13. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last version:
fastlayers.library v40.48
rtg.library 40.3945 + 40.3992
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13.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Version 2.53 Released
The new version 2.53 of TaskiSMS has been released.
New in this version:
- bugfixed ICQ plug-in and ICQ UIN/password preferences added
- reduced stack usage for "about" window
- some bugs in the program functions fixed
- updated Lycos plug-in
- HandyLand plug-in added
- "do not wait for server response" added so that the sending of SMS is speeded up
- 50 new countries added to the support list
- some missing bubble helps added
- Jumpy plug-in deleted
This program allows you to send SMS to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The program
can be downloaded either from the TaskiSMS-homepage or
from Aminet Aminet.
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13.Apr.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Executive Update by Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen - April 12, 2001
Greetings to one and all:
What a wonderful time it was for us in St. Louis. I must thank our hosts Bob and Diana Scharp
and all of the members of the Gateway Amiga Club. They once again outperformed and kept things rolling.
I want to make very clear what the announcements were and what it means for Amiga and the rest of the Amiga Family.
- Amiga has made NO change in strategy with AmigaDE. Things are going great, as expected, and
we have some impressive new customers; Sharp being the first.
- Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond was announced. This is a staged series of releases that will bring a native
port of the AmigaOS to the PPC. This is NOT about WarpOS, vs. anybody. It is an Amiga Inc. port
of the OS. You may infer nothing else from this.
- AmigaOne A1200 is the first new hardware, for the Amiga, and we are still planning a standalone ATX
board and other new pieces of hardware. AmigaOne for the A1200 will be out this summer. We are then
looking at releases later in the year, for the new standalone designs.
Summary:
- AmigaDE doing great and on target with the goals that we set forth and we will continue development efforts.
- AmigaOS 4.0 out this summer with the first of the AmigaOne Zico specification machines.
- Sharp is a new partner of Amiga Incorporated. More will soon be released about our relationship.
- There will be more partners and more announcements soon.
- This is a great time to be part of the Amiga Family.
- For more in-depth information there is a new technical update to be posted later today.
I thank you all for your support and look forward to a very exciting year before us!
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the team at Amiga, Inc.
Update:
As promised in McEwen's Executive Update, meanwhile technical details are available:
Technical Update Part 1
Technical Update Part 2
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12.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 15.2 Released
Version 15.2 of Safe was released. Viruses can be detected by Safe, but not removed from the system.
Here the details:
Name: Safe v15.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 28.873 Bytes
Release date: 12. April 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
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12.Apr.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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WarpJPEG V44.20 & WarpPNG V44.15 Datatypes Available
On Oliver Robert's homepage new versions of his JPEG & PNG datatypes for 68k and WOS were
released.
Download at the title link.
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12.Apr.2001
Lars Decker on ANF
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Amiga under QNX
Here the Amiga is mentioned as multitasking system, shortly.
It is interesting that the Amiga used runs under QNX.
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